April 16, 2026

The Days of European Film programme is not over; it continues. In Brno and in other cities, it is carried forward by cinemas with their own history, facilities and local audiences. In some places, films have been shown for more than a hundred years; elsewhere, a new screening room has been created in a former factory. The festival thus continues at venues shaped by both memory and the present.

In Brno, the festival continues at Kino Art. Cinema screenings began here on 24 March 1919, then still under the name Jugendkino, and today it is the last of Brno’s traditional municipal cinemas. The venue also includes Café Art and Galerie Art, giving filmgoers a place to be before and after the screening.

In Boskovice, the programme continues at Panorama. In recent years, the cinema has expanded with a second, more intimate auditorium with a capacity of 22 viewers, a full DCI projector and 7.1 sound. Its acoustic treatment was approached with the same care previously devoted to the sound design of Boskovice’s summer cinema.

In Frýdek-Místek, the festival continues at Kino Vlast. The building has stood in the city since 1927, and after technical modernisation the cinema became one of the best-equipped screening venues in the country. This old picture house is clearly not living on memories alone.

In Havířov, screenings take place at Kino Centrum. The cinema underwent a major reconstruction costing CZK 120 million and received an award in the Building of the Year competition of the Moravian-Silesian Region. From the outset, the city saw it not merely as a renovated auditorium, but as a broader cultural space. After twenty months, the cinema reopened to the public.

In Hodonín, Kino Svět has a history reaching back to 1913–1914. It originally opened as Kinematographen-theaters Labanz, later bore the name Hvězda after the war, and eventually became Kino Svět. One building thus contains a fragment of local history as well as the changing story of Czech cinema culture.

In Hradec Králové, the festival continues at Bio Central. Public reviews repeatedly mention its unusual film selection, a bar open until midnight, its dog-friendly policy, and the option of taking wine or regional beer into the auditorium. It is a rather appealing vision of an evening at the cinema.

In Jablonec nad Nisou, the programme continues at Kino Junior. Its name was not chosen by chance: in 1973, the former Kino Výstaviště was renamed precisely because it had become a specialised cinema for children and young audiences. Today it is fully digital, and in season its projection technology also moves to the summer cinema.

In Šumperk, the festival relies on Kino Oko, opened in 1928. In the past it also carried the names Varieté and Kapitol; today it is the city’s only independent cinema and has long ranked among the five most visited single-screen cinemas in the Czech Republic. It even offers a choice between a hall with refreshments and a quiet hall.

In Prostějov, the festival continues at Kino METRO 70, the city’s last permanent cinema. The building was constructed between 1965 and 1969 in the Brussels style, and it also includes an underground civil defence shelter. By Czech standards, that is a rather unusual combination, though it may prove useful.

In Vrchlabí, screenings take place at KARTONKA 1904. The cinema was founded in 2022 and is housed in the former premises of a cardboard paper factory dating from 1904. The new digital auditorium thus carries the history of the place in its very name.

In Znojmo, the festival continues at Kino Svět. Under one roof, it brings together two screening halls, the Žlutá ponorka bar and gallery, and the Bistrograf restaurant. The cinema’s programme is naturally complemented by other cultural and social activity around it.

And in Prague, screenings continue at Kino 35 at the French Institute. The cinema has a capacity of 203 seats, has been part of the Europa Cinemas network since January 2015, and also includes Bistro 35 next to the auditorium. European film here is not a seasonal visitor, but a regular part of the programme.

The programme in these cinemas continues even after the main part of the festival has ended. The full screening schedule remains available on the DEF website.